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This year EMU will welcome the Pep Band at home basketball games. The Pep Band, which is comprised of EMU students, will be playing during half-times, timeouts, and also preceding games. “Everyone in the EMU community should be super pumped… Read More ›

Luke Hartman, Vice President for Enrollment, and Gloria Rhodes, Chair of the Department of Applied Social Sciences, brought together a group of students and staff to discuss housing equity at EMU last Tuesday. Hartman invited staff members from Residence Life,… Read More ›

As part of Take Back the Night, four men came together to talk last Wednesday about societal pressure on men and what it means to be masculine. Sophomore Matej Gligorevic, Senior Nathanael Ressler, CJP student Andrew Daniels, and Community Member… Read More ›

EMU’s Black Student Union (BSU) held a four hour-long charity event from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, that included a basketball game in Yoder Arena. The event sold more than 150 tickets by the support of… Read More ›

Take Back the Night week is an annual event held on EMU’s campus focused on raising awareness about sexual violence on college campuses, providing support for survivors, and providing information on how to prevent sexual violence. This event has been… Read More ›

A new minor in the Humanitarian Action Leadership (HAL) program will be available to EMU students starting next year. After several years of planning, the program has been approved by both the graduate and undergraduate councils, as well as the… Read More ›

Diversity is talked about a lot at EMU, but some students are looking for more. Senior Christian Parks believes that it is time for change. He said, “If EMU is going to continue to be a Christian university, and not… Read More ›

This week, the Coalition of Sustainability Clubs are hosting an annual event called Food and Farming Week, a week of events that raise awareness of food and where it comes from through a lens of sustainability. The purpose of Food… Read More ›

Over 120 people from more than 20 organizations gathered in Martin Chapel on Tuesday evening to hear former Virginia Senator, Attorney General, and President and CEO of Prison Fellowship, Mark Earley, speak on mass incarceration in America. Earley applauded recent… Read More ›

On Friday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct. 17, the Peace and Justice Studies Association’s annual conference was held at James Madison University’s campus. The conference was made up of professors from colleges across the United States and Canada and workers… Read More ›